Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — WOMAN. [ARTICLE]

WOMAN.

The Greatest Have Thought It Worthy to Honor Her. I think there is nothing made in creation that can be compared with woman —not even man. Homage and Jevotion to a woman is the first duty us man, after homage and devotion jo the Supreme Being, whom all the different races unite in describing as God. { have fancied that woman and woman's love represented the ruling spirit, as m#jti and man’s brain represent the moving in the world. I have drawn pictu/es of an age in which real chivalry of thought, word and deed might be the onl j: law necessary to control men’s actions. Not the scenic and theatrical chivatiy of the middle ages, ready at any moment to break out into epidemic crime, put a true reverence and understanding of woman’s supreme right to honor and consideration; an age where it should no longer be said that love is but an episode in the brutal life of man, while to woman it is life itself. There is no pleasure like the pleasure of trying to understand what a woman wants; there is no sorrow like the sorrow of failing to do that; and there is no glory like the glory of success. It is is a divine task for any man, and the greatest have thought it worthy of them.—[E. Marion Crawford.